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Saying. but in the current climate, it bears repeating. muslim-americans are working every day on the front lines of the fight against radicalization. another challenge is how to strike the right balance of protecting privacy and security. encryption of mobile communications presents a particularly tough problem. we should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. they have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist communications and preventing a future attack. on the other hand, we know there are legitimate concerns ...

And al qaeda terrorist plotters wherever they are. >> why do you think this paris plan slipped through the cracks here? obviously you guys have been very aggressive. do you have issues now in monitoring cell phones? do you have issues that you're facing that stood in the way of you being able to break up this plot? >> well, time will tell as the investigation of the paris attacks continues. and obviously the french are leading that and are very focused and we're working very closely with them, sharing intelligence. i personally have been in contact daily with my counterparts in france and in p...

I want to play you what the president had to say about that and get your response. >> that's why we're putting in place new restrictions on how america collects and uses intense. >> i think the dialogue, even though i'm not happy about how it began last year, has been pretty good overall. including the president's own role. i think most americans that i know are wrestling with this very question in a thoughtful way. on the one hand, we need to be able to look for evidence of terrorist communications, and we don't obviously know in advance who is going to be having those communications or those...

In a speech this morning, the president outlined the steps he planned to take to reform the nsa's approach to intelligence gathering. he struck a very careful balance today, stressing the need for surveillance, while recognizing the privacy concerns of citizens. here is om of the reforms the president laid out. the establishment of a panel of privacy advocates who will be permitted to argue before the fisa court on certain cases. in other words, to make a case against the intelligence community in many case. a reduction of the range of phone numbers that can be targeted when mapping potential ...

A third approach would be replicating the data we need with other programs that don't allow the government -- don't enable the government to possess the bulk database. >> some of our viewers are probably confused as well. there wouldn't be any one institution holding all of these numbers, the duration of the phone calls and all of that? >> well, wolf, let me point out that the providers would hold these business records anyway but the third option is instead of drawing on a database, can the intelligence community through the other programs find ways to map terrorist communications in a way th...